Political Wisdom

Sound Bites of Political Wisdom

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
      -- G. Gordon Liddy

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
     -- George Bernard Shaw

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
     -- Douglas Casey (1992)

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
     -- P.J. O'Rourke

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to give at the expense of everybody else.
     -- Frederic Bastiat

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
     -- Ronald Reagan (1986)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the acts.
     -- Will Rogers

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
     -- P.J. O'Rourke

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
     -- Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
     -- Mark Twain (1866)

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
     -- Mark Twain

Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
     -- Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
     -- Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
     -- Mark Twain

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
     -- Winston Churchill

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
     -- Edward Langley